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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

be taken as a confirmation of authenticity.
The eleventh millennium BC, in other words, soon after the ‘Mill of
Heaven’ broke, shifting sunrise on the spring equinox from Virgo into the
constellation of Leo, was the only epoch in which the due east facing
Sphinx would have manifested exactly the right symbolic alignment on
exactly the right day—watching the vernal sun rising in the dawn sky
against the background of his own celestial counterpart ...

Looking due east at dawn on the vernal equinox in 10,450 BC. The
Sphinx and the constellation of Leo.

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